Anderson Camp Ground (also known as Brushy Creek Arbor and United Methodist Church) is a historic camp ground in Brushy Creek, in

Anderson County, Texas Anderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. Located within East Texas, its county seat is Palestine. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of Anderson County was 57,922. Anderson County comprises the Palestine micropol ...

, United States (not to be confused with Brushy Creek in Williamson County, near Austin). The Arbor is a wooden tent-like structure that was built in 1874. The Brushy Creek Methodist Church is a one-story

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

structure that was built in 1894. The site was added to the

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in 1982. The last Methodist camp meetings at the camp ground occurred in the 1930s.

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Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Gothic Revival architecture in Texas 1874 establishments in Texas Buildings and structures in Anderson County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Anderson County, Texas Campgrounds in the United States United Methodist Church Methodism in Texas {{Texas-NRHP-stub

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